Periodic Service Announcement- 12-22-2024
by Your Evil Auntie
I lost a niece to COVID-19 because she refused to believe that the virus is real, so she didn’t get vaccinated.
Her idiot husband is an Alabama preacher who told his drooling, gullible flock that it was actually all some sort of Liberal plot designed to take them away from their angry, woman-hating sky-god.
My niece was in her mid-40s, so she certainly should have known better. It pisses me off that she died from something that could have been made far less lethal in the event she contracted it.
Meanwhile, for one reason or another, since the time that the virus appeared in late 2019/early 2020, millions have died from it, so many of them because they either insisted that it was actually some sort of plot to inject humanity with microchips so they could be monitored (to those mentally shaky goons, you’d need a MUCH larger needle to insert a microchip. They’re the size of a grain of rice), or to somehow change your RNA to make you no longer human so that your angry, woman-hating sky-god wouldn’t let you into your purported afterlife.
And now we have that brain-worm nibbled, former heroin-addict, frothing lunatic Robert F Kennedy Jr trying to essentially do away with vaccinations, claiming that they are somehow dangerous. He’s even suing to have the long-established polio vaccine taken off the market, insisting that it’s dangerous.
It is not, and has saved countless lives since the vaccine was created.
People, since the inception of vaccination, we have managed to just about eradicate so very many illnesses that could seriously debilitate, if not outright end us. Still, some of you continue to insist that “forcing” someone to be vaccinated violates your Constitutional Rights.
You may not realize that during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington mandated that all of his troops be vaccinated against smallpox, as that virus ran rampant through those under his command.
Yes, even then, vaccinations were a thing.
Also, kiddies, in 1905, the United States Supreme Court weighed in on the subject of mandatory vaccination in the case of Jacobson v Massachusetts.
In that groundbreaking decision, the United States Supreme Court determined that mandatory vaccination is legal and in fact, Constitutional, in order to help people stay healthy.
Folks, I got boosters on all the childhood vaccinations I could when I was in my late 50s. I also got the shingles (Shingrix) vaccines, the RSV vaccine as soon as I hit 60, my annual flu shot, Hepatitis vaccinations, and all available COVID vaccines as soon as they have become available.
Don’t be a fucking idiot. Get your fucking vaccinations and boost them whenever you’re able.
Don’t be a gullible numpty like my now-deceased twit of a niece.
I’m sorry for your loss. May her husband rot in the he’ll he imagines.
I always keep up on my vaccinations. It’s the only intelligent thing to do.
A point of clarification: General Washington did not order that his troops be vaccinated: True vaccination (use of cowpox to prevent smallpox) was not available before 1796. What General Washington ordered was inoculation, an earlier technique that involved deliberately infecting people with a mild strain of smallpox. Far riskier than vaccination, but still far better than letting a virulent strain of wild smallpox tear a hole in your ranks.
Inoculation had been introduced in England in the 1720s by Lady Montague; she’d learned of it in Turkey and insisted that her two daughters be inoculated.
Later, in his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin wrote:
“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.”
In medicine anything you do, including deciding to do nothing, carries risks. Choose the greater benefit with the lesser risk any time you can.